Pharmacist

In this job posting, we welcome applicants from all geographic regions. Please note that while we encourage applications from candidates interested in various locations, you will have the opportunity to specify your preferred regions during the application process. This ensures that you only receive opportunities in the areas that interest you most. 

Are you someone who is passionate about helping others? Do you want to work for one of British Columbia's top employers? If you have answered yes to these questions we want you to continue reading!

Current and future casual (on-call) opportunities for Pharmacists may be available within the Lower Mainland region. This includes facilities in Abbotsford, Burnaby, Chilliwack, Coquitlam, Delta, Langley, Maple Ridge, Mission, New Westminster, North Vancouver, Port Moody, Powell River, Richmond, Sechelt, Squamish, Surrey, Vancouver and White Rock, located in British Columbia.

In the role of a Pharmacist, you will build on your education and experience as you:

• Interpret medication orders/prescriptions and dispenses medications using a computerized medication information system in accordance with legal, professional, and departmental policies, procedures, and standards.
• Assess prescriptions for therapeutic suitability by referring to standardized references (primary drug information texts), interpreting laboratory data, and /or reviewing patient specific demographics.
• Communicate verbally and in writing, with physicians, nurses and other professionals and provides drug information using appropriate reference material.
• Participate in obtaining medication history from select patients and verifies any allergy information and assists with medication reconciliation process.
• Function as a clinical pharmacist responsible for ensuring select patient drug related problems are resolved.
• Participates in ward rounds and/or program team meetings and documents patient specific therapeutic plans.
• Ensure that medications are efficiently and accurately dispensed and/or compounded and labelled and that dispensing records are completed.
• Participate in dispensary based implementation of medication safety initiatives and quality control activities.

To join the organization we require you to have:

• Current registration as a Pharmacist with the College of Pharmacists of British Columbia

Our pharmacy team always aspires to improve and achieve the best possible care for our patients and improve their quality of life.

If this sounds like the perfect role for you, here’s why we believe you should apply:

• A career that offers you the opportunity to work in a fast growing and exciting organization with professionals who are eminent in their respective fields.
• Competitive salary package, including comprehensive health benefits coverage.

We aim to build an environment where you love the work you do, the place where you work, and the people around you. From the financial advisor handling our health care resources, to the IT professional enabling life-saving data, to the nurse and physician on the front line of patient care, everyone plays a role in the care continuum. Together, we build outstanding workplaces.

Apply now to join our excellent team!

One team, best pharmacy care, better lives.

The Pharmacist provides distribution pharmacy services by performing duties such as interpreting medication orders/prescriptions, assessing prescriptions for therapeutic suitability and ensuring that medications are efficiently and accurately dispensed and/or compounded and labelled and that dispensing records are complete. Communicates with physicians, patients, and/or other health care team members for prescription clarification and problem resolution. Provides instructions to others on proper use/administration, storage and/or disposal, possible side effects of prescribed and self selected medications. Participates in the collection of data for medication use evaluation projects, implementation of dispensary based medication safety initiatives, quality control activities, contributes to internal publications and participates in clinical drug trials in accordance with established standards and procedures.

Additionally, the Pharmacist functions as a Clinical Pharmacist responsible for ensuring select patient drug related problems are resolved. Participates in nursing ward rounds and/or program team meetings and documents patient specific therapeutic plans.

• Knowledge of drug distribution processes in a hospital setting.
• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with other health care practitioners, as well as patients, family members and the public.
• Ability to organize and prioritize work.
• Ability to operate related equipment.
• Physical ability to carry out the duties of the position.

Fraser Health is the heart of health care for over two million people in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations and is home to 32 First Nations within the Fraser Salish region.

People - those we care for and those who care for them - are at the heart of everything we do. Our hospital and community-based services are delivered by a team of 48,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers.

We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the work force. We strive to maintain an environment of respect, caring and trust. Fraser Health’s hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable and culturally safe manner.

Together, we are the heart of health care.

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